# Line breaks missing in message

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/line-breaks-missing-in-message/11888>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** forms\
**Created:** [March 15, 2018, 9:43am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/line-breaks-missing-in-message/11888 "2018-03-15T09:43:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![PaulAxonGarside](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/paulaxongarside/32/1529_2.png) [@PaulAxonGarside](https://community.hubspot.com/u/PaulAxonGarside)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2018, 9:43am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/line-breaks-missing-in-message/11888/1 "2018-03-15T09:43:15Z")

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Hi

I’m passing in data to the message field of a form via the API, but for some reason the line breaks, which were previously present, are now missing? I’ve tried \n\n & \r\n but it is ignoring them in both the stored info and the email of the results?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Derek\_Gervais](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/derek_gervais/32/17429_2.png) [@Derek\_Gervais](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Derek_Gervais)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/line-breaks-missing-in-message/11888/2 "2018-03-16T18:53:11Z")

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Hi @PaulAxonGarside,

Can you give me an example contact in HubSpot where the form submission is missing the new lines?

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**Author:** ![PaulAxonGarside](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/paulaxongarside/32/1529_2.png) [@PaulAxonGarside](https://community.hubspot.com/u/PaulAxonGarside)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2018, 2:21pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/line-breaks-missing-in-message/11888/3 "2018-03-20T14:21:11Z")

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My fubar, if you don’t include the field you’re passing as a field in the form you’re passing the data to, in this case ‘message’, it ignores the line breaks. I’m assuming as it normally identifies an input as text rather than a textarea so therefore was ignoring the line breaks but still picking up the field data.

Thanks